KMail - images in mail
Hi all, When I receive html mail that has images in the mail (not attachments, but embedded in the body of the mail), KMail/Kontact doesn't display the images inside the mail, but instead at the end of the mail as attachments. This is very frustrating - is there any way to force it to display the images where they are supposed to be? Thanks -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za
On Wednesday 08 September 2004 08:33 am, Hans du Plooy wrote:
Hi all,
When I receive html mail that has images in the mail (not attachments, but embedded in the body of the mail), KMail/Kontact doesn't display the images inside the mail, but instead at the end of the mail as attachments. This is very frustrating - is there any way to force it to display the images where they are supposed to be?
Thanks -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za
Actually Hans, it does display them inline, if the mail has not been forwarded a hundred times already. According to where the mail last originated also has an effect on it's condition with images. I receive many mails with inline images that display just fine, but many do not as you complain about. Upon looking at the mail, the server it came through or from and the email program used to forward it, it's understandable why it got confused before arriving in your mail box. ;o) I'm going to assume you have in your settings that you prefer html mail for most things and under View>Attachments>Inline selected? Those will certainly help, but as they warn you, are not the best/safest settings to use. Lee -- --- KMail v1.7 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 Those Who Dance Are Considered Insane, by Those That Cannot Hear the Music!
On Wednesday 08 September 2004 21:28, BandiPat wrote:
Actually Hans, it does display them inline, if the mail has not been forwarded a hundred times already.
Thanks for your reply. The mails I'm referring to however are not forwarded mails. A few examples are the daily "executive report" from one of our firewalls (Astaro - based on SUSE, I think). My ISP sends out a weekly newsletter, heavily loaded with pictures. It's pretty much illegible without the images in the right places. I'm reading these off an imap account (hosted on SUSE 9.1 with postfix and courier) and they display perfectly with Thunderbird and Evolution. So it's Kmail's bad. The mails with images that do load fine in the right palaces are mails that have links to images linked from websites, not ones "embedded" in the mails.
I'm going to assume you have in your settings that you prefer html mail for most things and under View>Attachments>Inline selected? Those will certainly help, but as they warn you, are not the best/safest settings to use.
Yes, for the purposes of my personal mail I'm so far happy to rely on kmail's relative obscurity :-) For what it's worth, I downloaded the kde-3.3.3 rpms from a SUSE ftp mirror yesterday - KMail still doesn't load the images in the right places. -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za
Hans, On Thursday 09 September 2004 10:58, Hans du Plooy wrote:
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I'm going to assume you have in your settings that you prefer html mail for most things and under View>Attachments>Inline selected? Those will certainly help, but as they warn you, are not the best/safest settings to use.
Apart from the funky buffer-overflow exploits in some of the image-related code (which are now starting to become known and are getting fixed, it seems, based on recent YOU updates), showing embedded (not linked) images is fairly safe.
Yes, for the purposes of my personal mail I'm so far happy to rely on kmail's relative obscurity :-)
What does that mean? You still expose yourself to some of the exploits made possible my HTML mail, though surely not nearly as many as with Outlook on Windows. (My "favorite" one of late is using query URLs to fetch images while using the query parameter to send an indication that your email address is live, even if you don't reply or even if you attempt to bounce the message as undeliverable.) Be aware that you can set the HTML-mail-preffered flag on a per-folder basis. I only leave it enabled on select folders into which I filter mail from certain trusted sources.
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Hans du Plooy
Randall Schulz
Yes, for the purposes of my personal mail I'm so far happy to rely on kmail's relative obscurity :-)
What does that mean? You still expose yourself to some of the exploits made possible my HTML mail, though surely not nearly as many as with Outlook on Windows. Well, that was sort of tongue in cheek, but yes. After my mail made it
On Thursday 09 September 2004 20:34, Randall R Schulz wrote: through spamassasin and three virus scanners (BitDefender's postfix plugin, as well as H+BEDV and Clam through amavis), I'm willing to take my chances. They get rid of most of the junk in any way. BitDefender filters out not just virus mails, but also mails with other exploits. I have my html enabled on all mail folders except my inbox, so I'm not too concerned about that. I just want the embedded images to display properly. -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za
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